Kalovale Wrote:It seems we're talking about three different time frames of reference here, first-person, third-person and objective frames. How would you, or relativity, distinguish them?
The earth and the objective are "stationary" relative to the ship (well they are going very slowly compared to the ship), while the ship and its crew are going at near-c speeds. For the earth and the objective it will seem like an eternity has passed between the ship launch and arrival (though no one on earth will know of the ship's arrival since the information can't travel back all those light years).

